VERSE
[49“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”]
EXPLANATION
The human incarnation (like Jesus) comes to the earth not for establishing peace in the family of a Nivrutti devotee, who is mad of God. God comes to earth to establish peace in the society of Pravrutti devotees, which is relevant to the entire humanity having love to God. This is the general aspect. The special and very rare aspect is to guide a very rare devotee interested in Nivrutti, which deals with very rare madness to God.
The meaning of this statement gets misunderstood easily and we think that God has come in human form to break our family bonds by separation and split playing some cunning tricks disturbing the peace of family and thereby that of the entire society. Not at all. There is no need for God to do like that. The actual point is that in Nivrutti you will be very much attracted towards the human form of God due to high relevance. This attraction to God exposed brings subsequent detachment from family that results in divisions and fights. However, this state can be avoided by keeping your bond and service to God in secrecy so that you will carry on your spiritual journey in very smooth and cool atmosphere without hurting the ignorant family.
If the family is also devoted to God like you, there is no question of split and division. However, if the family has some devotion mixed with some ignorance, first, you can propagate the spiritual knowledge to your family since your family is a part of humanity only. By this you have already started the divine work of propagation. Your family may be reformed and may come in line to co-operate with you. If both these ways fail and if the family remains totally ignorant and very rigid to your spiritual progress, the above path of secrecy as stated by the Gita (Rahasi sthitah...) can be followed. This path of secrecy is better than fighting with the totally ignorant family, hurting it and simultaneously getting yourself disturbed also.
The dropping of family bond takes place spontaneously without any effort as a subsequent natural consequence of your attachment to God and hence is not sin at all. However, the same should not be applied to your attachment to a prostitute through higher attraction. The personalities of most pious God and most cunning prostitute differ very much from each other like truth and lie.
Any quality is neither good nor bad by itself and becomes good if directed to God and becomes bad if directed to world. A thorny stick burnt in fire altar becomes sacred ash to be kept on the forehead. Rose scent poured in drainage is rejected by its bad smell. Hence, what Jesus said is about the natural consequences of your attraction to alive human incarnation and not about His effort to cause such splits by cheating tricks as if it is the purpose of His visit to the earth!
